FMNH 90311.1,.4, nosub[1]

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    Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] Field Museum of Natural History. | ENT | [Field Museum Subject Code written in red] 34-46 | Country: Luzon Island, P.I. | Locality: Guinaang, Lepanto-Bontoc Prov. | People: Tingian ["Igorot" crossed out] Stock. | Name: Feather head ornament case of bamboo cylinder with bamboo cap covering each end, and contains 2 head ornaments of cock feathers bound to sticks. Worn by men in canao or ceremonies. | Collection: R.F. Cummings Expedition, S.C. Simms, Collector, 1906 | Notes: (over) | Price: [Philippine peso symbol] .100 | [LEFT MARGIN] A | 90311 / 1-3 | 614 | Acc. 1004 | [ILLUSTRATION] | [ILLUSTRATION NOTATION] | [BACK] Among most of the tribes of Northwestern Luzon, the participants in dances and ceremonies deck their hair with feather ornaments. |
Catalog Number: 90311.1,.4, nosub[1]
Description: ornament case
Materials: feather, wood, bamboo
Cultural Attribution: Tinguian
Accession Number: [1004] Cummings Philippine Explorations - Luzon, Philippines - ethnology, 1906-1907 (Expedition)
Accession Year:
Other Numbers: 614
District/County: Lepanto-Bontoc Prov.
City/Town: Guinaang
Collector/Source: Cummings Philippine Explorations - Luzon, Philippines - ethnology, 1906-1907, Stephen C. Simms : The Field Museum
EMu IRN: 1444011
GUID: af7336a3-9689-4b05-9612-6b6174660ff3

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